The positive correlation between maternal size and offspring size: fitting pieces of a life-history puzzle

The relation between maternal phenotype and offspring size, explained by overhead material costs of reproduction

(2015) Ido Filin   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Offspring Size across Life-History Stages

(2014) Holly K. Kindsvater et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Brood ball size but not egg size correlates with maternal size in a dung beetle,Onthophagus atripennis

(2014) SHIGEKI KISHI   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Can timing of spawning explain the increase in egg size with female size in salmonid fish?

(2014) Pauliina Louhi et al.   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

Environmental Quality Predicts Optimal Egg Size in the Wild

(2013) Njal Rollinson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evidence of Pelvic and Nonpelvic Constraint on Egg Size in Two Species ofKinosternonfrom Mexico

(2013) Rodrigo Macip-Ríos et al.   CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY

The relationship between offspring size and fitness: integrating theory and empiricism

(2013) Njal Rollinson et al.   ECOLOGY

CONSTRAINTS ON THE ADULT-OFFSPRING SIZE RELATIONSHIP IN PROTISTS

(2013) Franklin Caval-Holme et al.   EVOLUTION

Life histories of closely related amphidromous and non-migratory fish species: a trade-off between egg size and fecundity

(2013) Gerard P. Closs et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Optimal egg size in a suboptimal environment: reproductive ecology of female Sonora mud turtles (Kinosternon sonoriense) in central Arizona, USA

(2012) Jeffrey E. Lovich et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

THE EVOLUTION OF TRADE-OFFS UNDER DIRECTIONAL AND CORRELATIONAL SELECTION

(2012) Derek A. Roff et al.   EVOLUTION

Indeterminate growth in long-lived freshwater turtles as a component of individual fitness

(2012) Justin D. Congdon et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Female size constrains egg size via the influence of reproductive organ size and resource storage in the seed beetle Callosobruchus chinensis

(2012) Shin-ichi Yanagi et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality

(2012) H. M. Dunsworth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread reproductive variation in North American turtles: temperature, egg size and optimality

(2012) Njal Rollinson et al.   ZOOLOGY

A Model for Optimal Offspring Size in Fish, Including Live-Bearing and Parental Effects

(2011) Christian Jørgensen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

VARIATION IN OFFSPRING SIZE WITH BIRTH ORDER IN PLACENTAL FISH: A ROLE FOR ASYMMETRIC SIBLING COMPETITION?

(2011) Matthew Schrader et al.   EVOLUTION

THE EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF ACQUISITION AND ALLOCATION IN THE WING DIMORPHIC CRICKET, GRYLLUS FIRMUS

(2011) Elizabeth G. King et al.   EVOLUTION

Maternal fecundity does not affect offspring germination – An empirical test of the sibling competition hypothesis

(2011) A. Eberhart et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disentangling determinants of egg size in the Geometridae (Lepidoptera) using an advanced phylogenetic comparative method

(2011) R. B. DAVIS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Survival costs of reproduction predict age-dependent variation in maternal investment

(2011) H. K. KINDSVATER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The relationship between female body size and egg size in pipefishes

(2011) I. Braga Goncalves et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Body size-specific maternal effects on the offspring environment shape juvenile phenotypes in Atlantic salmon

(2011) Njal Rollinson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Parental Care Trade‐Offs and Life‐History Relationships in Insects

(2010) James D. J. Gilbert et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The relationship between maternal phenotype and offspring quality: Do older mothers really produce the best offspring?

(2010) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   ECOLOGY

Trade-off acquisition and allocation in Gryllus firmus: a test of the Y model

(2010) E. G. KING et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How to balance the offspring quality-quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable

(2010) Barbara Fischer et al.   OIKOS

Cost of Reproduction, Resource Quality, and Terminal Investment in a Burying Beetle

(2009) J. Curtis Creighton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

It’s about time: the temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection in the wild

(2009) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trade-offs among life-history traits; a comment on Wanget al.(2009)

(2009) C. W. Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Reproductive Allometry and the Size‐Number Trade‐Off for Lizards

(2008) Robin W. Warne et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Sources and Significance of Among-Individual Reproductive Variation in a Northern Population of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta)

(2008) Njal Rollinson et al.   COPEIA

Linking migratory patterns and diet to reproductive traits in female brown trout (Salmo truttaL.) by means of stable isotope analysis on ova

(2008) M.-L. Acolas et al.   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS AMONG FOOD HABIT, LOSS OF FLIGHT, AND REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS: LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION IN THE SILPHINAE (COLEOPTERA: SILPHIDAE)

(2008) Hiroshi Ikeda et al.   EVOLUTION

The Significance of Clutch-size

(2008) David Lack   IBIS

Scaling of offspring number and mass to plant and animal size: model and meta-analysis

(2008) A. Jan Hendriks et al.   OECOLOGIA

Competition as a selective mechanism for larger offspring size in guppies

(2007) Farrah Bashey   OIKOS

Optimal offspring provisioning when egg size is “constrained”: a case study with the painted turtleChrysemys picta

(2007) Njal Rollinson et al.   OIKOS